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Record Nr.

UNISA996201820803316

Autore

Loughlin Gerard

Titolo

Alien sex [[electronic resource] ] : the body and desire in cinema and theology / / Gerard Loughlin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004

ISBN

1-281-31030-1

9786611310301

0-470-70115-3

0-470-77335-9

0-470-77515-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Collana

Challenges in contemporary theology

Disciplina

233.5

233/.5

Soggetti

Human body - Religious aspects - Christianity

Sex - Religious aspects - Christianity

Motion pictures - Religious aspects - Christianity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; List of Figures; In the Lobby; Part I Introduction; 1 Desiring Bodies; Part II Cavities; 2 Seeing in the Dark; 3 Visionary Screens; Part III Copulations; 4 Alien Sex; 5 God's Sex; 6 Sex Slaves; 7 Want of Family; Part IV Consolations; 8 The Man Who Fell to Earth; 9 The Garden; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Gerard Loughlin is one of the leading theologians working at the interface between religion and contemporary culture. In this exceptional work, he uses cinema and the films it shows to think about the church and the visions of desire it displays. Discusses various films, including the Alien quartet, Christopher Nolan's Memento, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange, Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth and Derek Jarman's The Garden. Draws on a wide range of authors, both ancient and modern, religious and secular, from Plato to Levinas, from